Marie-Lou Chatel (@marie_lou_chatel)

Since my adolescence, I’ve always been interested with the work of the great photographers of the 20th century. At that time, I wondered what colors these great B&W artists saw in their lenses. To understand those moments of history, I specialized in colorization of old photographs. My goal is to find colors close to reality without undoing the essence of the original photo. This work offer a new perspective, however it is not a substitute to the original photograph consider it more as an alternate version. The photos I use come from the Library of Congress, they are mostly free from copyright restrictions. Sometime, unknown photographers.